WUaS LiveStream (M 6/29/2020)
Sri Lanka World Univ&Sch in Sinhala language is begun, & in Google Sitesශ්රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්යාලය සහ පාසල
https://youtu.be/ifqPX1hgxcA
(<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ) - 6/20/20 @WorldUnivAndSch Minutes: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/hypericum-calycinum-minutes-for-open.html> https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka ~
WUaS LiveStream (M 6/29/2020)— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) June 29, 2020
Sri Lanka World Univ&Sch in Sinhala language is begun, & in Google Sitesශ්රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්යාලය සහ පාසලhttps://t.co/CLHsJQBekN
(<https://t.co/aeHIXmpLYX) - 6/20/20 @WorldUnivAndSch Minutes: https://t.co/mxQKuiwguh> https://t.co/x1EoRb7Df7 ~
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1277665525238083584?s=20
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1277667715474288640?s=20
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Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala language, is begun, & in Google Sites
ශ්රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්යාලය සහ පාසල
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka
Here are the emerging Minutes from open WUaS Business Meeting on 6/20/2020 https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/hypericum-calycinum-minutes-for-open.html
WUaS News Q&A LiveStream begins in 2 hr
Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala language, is begun, & in Google Sites— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 29, 2020
ශ්රී ලංකා ලෝක විශ්ව විද්යාලය සහ පාසලhttps://t.co/nCxrDBSZp6
Here are the emerging Minutes from open WUaS Business Meeting on 6/20/2020 https://t.co/vgRS6mJSFR
WUaS News Q&A LiveStream begins in 2 hr
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1277619309859110912?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1277619471943778305?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1277638868963999744?s=20
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WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/live> http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 6/29/20 - 10a PT New WUaS Univ in Sri Lanka! #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting @WorldUnivAndSch online Universities in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States& #LegoRobotics @WUaSPress Langs: @SGKMacLeod info@w
WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://t.co/UOPG69mHvz> http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 6/29/20 - 10a PT New WUaS Univ in Sri Lanka! #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting@WorldUnivAndSch online Universities in https://t.co/LRKdU7cdv4& #LegoRobotics@WUaSPress Langs: @SGKMacLeod info@w— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) June 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1277613814045798400?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1277614075510288385?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1277615425656741888?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1277615901102112769?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1277616695465500672?s=20
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WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/live> http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 6/29/20 - 10a PT New WUaS Univ in SINHALA Lang #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting @WorldUnivAndSch online Universities in https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States& #LegoRobotics @WUaSPress Langs: @ScottMacLeod ~
WUaS News Q&A LiveStream https://t.co/oFqkfl9E2y> http://youtube. com/WorldUnivandSch Mon 6/29/20 - 10a PT New WUaS Univ in SINHALA Lang #WUaSMonthlyBusinessMeeting@WorldUnivAndSch online Universities in https://t.co/4NwosIzas8& #LegoRobotics@WUaSPress Langs: @ScottMacLeod ~— WUaSPress (@WUaSPress) June 29, 2020
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1277614539517771778?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1277615982110863361?s=20
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See, Sri Lanka's Rifai's comments here -
| Jun 28, 2020, 3:59 AM (1 day ago) |  | ||
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Hi !
Yeah ! It looks nice but it is not an easy language to learn. I can change the page to Sinhala in Sinhala itself and drop Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka World University and School is a really long name so we better drop country names from the university name. No I worked only on the landing page for now as I have to manually edit sentences.
I have taken but never completed. Have completed only in FutureLearn and Canvas. I do have experience in self hosting online courses with verified certificates using Moodle for over 2 years.
If you want to host your own edX courses on the edX platform or combine courses to provide a specialised programme you need to contact edX. If you want to launch private courses from scratch using OCW you need to self host Open edX LMS or use edX Studio with edX Edge.
Sure we will go ahead with English. Yeah ! Higher education is mainly done in English based on British qualifications using classrooms. State universities are mainly for high school toppers. It depends on how the students react to e-learning? I gave out nearly 5000 edX coupons with the majority dropping out halfway and we are providing 4 year programme with no exit points. What is the quota?
Regards,
Rifai
And see, too http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/plum-headed-parakeet-bagpiping-scottish.html - at bottom (and - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/06/sri-lanka-blue-magpie-great-wuas.html - and some other recent blog posts), which you'll also find here:
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new Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala in Google Sites (and Google Translate friendly), and designed / accessible from a smartphone even -
https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka
| Fri, Jun 26, 9:47 AM (2 days ago) | | ||
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Hi Rifai, Peter, Partha, (and Marisol, Quechua language teacher at Stanford),
I just shared this World Univ & Sch homepage in Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/
Rifai, focusing on Sinhala and Tamil languages will help too with WUaS maritime law - https://wiki.
and in both the Law School at Sri Lanka WUaS (in Sinhala), and the Tamil language Law School at India WUaS, for example.
Rifai, re your "How about assessment, proctoring and certificate?" - am hoping this will come out further of a kind of conversation between edX in Massachusetts, and the state of California's BPPE for licensing, and concurrently WASC for accreditation too. Perhaps edX will be able to offer the equivalent of assessment, proctoring and on WUaS edX certificates.
Please let me know if you got the invitation I just shared from - https://sites.google.com/
Regards,
Scott
Just shared this
Hi Rifai (in Sri Lanka), Peter, Partha, and Marisol,
I'm sharing this World Univ & Sch home page in Google Sites for you, Rifai, to explore translating into the Sinhala and Tamil languages. (I'm sending to mostly Google email accounts). Regards, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org)
I'm sharing this World Univ & Sch home page in Google Sites for you, Rifai, to explore translating into the Sinhala and Tamil languages. (I'm sending to mostly Google email accounts). Regards, Scott (worlduniversityandschool.org)
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| Sat, Jun 27, 8:40 AM (1 day ago) | | ||
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Hi !
I received a notice and started the translation. I have to review and edit manually as some sentences are gibberish. Also some words like credit had to be changed as Google thinks someone is trying to get a loan ;) Will gradually move into course translation.
We will have to work out something if we are to launch a degree in September. We could use the quizzes in edX courses to assess. Certificate can also be issued using Word etc.
We might have to monitor the students online via a combination of webcam, ID verification & screen sharing to prevent impersonation as someone paid to do so could follow the degree under a students name.
Regards,
Rifai
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| Sat, Jun 27, 9:59 AM (1 day ago) | | ||
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So beautiful, and what a beautiful script too! I want to write English on the computer in a new rounded way!
And amazing - a new Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala in Google Sites (and Google Translate friendly), and designed / accessible from a smartphone even -
A good 'naming' model too for all ~200 countries - first in English, but then perhaps named in the countries' official / mian languages? Something like - https://sites.google.com/view/
I received this invitation to translate at worlduniversityandschool@
Rifai, have you taken an edX course? I've only taken this single (HarvardX JuryX) edX law course in 2016, taught by Harvard Law Emeritus Professor Charlie Nesson - and if I recall correctly it's pretty well structured IT-wise for accreditation / licensing regarding proctoring etc. (The edX JuryX archived course link here - https://scott-macleod.
Also regarding translation and edX, this is the idea in the big picture: taking potentially edX courses (from best STEM CC-4 OCW courses - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - into - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
Am hoping too the way will open to communicate more directly with edX and Anant Agarwal regarding all of this in due course. Seeking to offer English-speaking Sri Lankans this autumn free-to-students' online Bachelor degrees (so please don't worry too much about translation in Sinhala). And you mentioned in a previous email that you think you might be able to find WUaS students? In ballpark terms, how many might be interested in a 4 year free online Bachelor's degree in English?
Thank you, Rifai, and so great!
WUaS Cheers, Scott
So this doesn't disappear: :)
PS
Seeking to move some of the learning at WUaS into a realistic virtual earth - https://twitter.com/hashtag/
Here's the Bay of Bengal in Google Maps / Street View -
And here's the Palk Strait
Scott
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Rifai and All,
I went to Google Translate and it was nice to hear spoken World University and School of Sri Lanka in Sinhala - https://translate.google.
Appreciating, too, the English rendering from Google Translate - World University and School of Sri Lanka .
Here by the way are the beginnings of World Univ & Sch in Google Maps / Street View with time slider (for HISTORY too!) Google Earth (and re TensorFlow AI and Translate)
How are the supply of and access to laptop computers for high achieving 18 year olds in Sri Lanka (who might speak English) - and very reliable broadband for group video conferencing, with students in all ~200 countries around the world in WUaS courses for credit?
Regards, Scott
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| Sun, Jun 28, 3:59 AM (1 day ago) | | ||
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Hi !
Yeah ! It looks nice but it is not an easy language to learn. I can change the page to Sinhala in Sinhala itself and drop Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka World University and School is a really long name so we better drop country names from the university name. No I worked only on the landing page for now as I have to manually edit sentences.
I have taken but never completed. Have completed only in FutureLearn and Canvas. I do have experience in self hosting online courses with verified certificates using Moodle for over 2 years.
If you want to host your own edX courses on the edX platform or combine courses to provide a specialised programme you need to contact edX. If you want to launch private courses from scratch using OCW you need to self host Open edX LMS or use edX Studio with edX Edge.
Sure we will go ahead with English. Yeah ! Higher education is mainly done in English based on British qualifications using classrooms. State universities are mainly for high school toppers. It depends on how the students react to e-learning? I gave out nearly 5000 edX coupons with the majority dropping out halfway and we are providing 4 year programme with no exit points. What is the quota?
Regards,
Rifai
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| Jun 28, 2020, 5:37 AM (1 day ago) | | ||
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Hi !
I deleted the previous page and created a new page. I trimmed down the page and mentioned Autumn offering. Tamil page is also created but I am not very good at it. Better to get someone from South India to do it. They will have to reach me in Sinhala or Tamil and I can redirect them.
English rendering right click and translate. We have standard broadband facilities in urban areas and a growing number of users learning on PCs and smartphones.
Yeah ! It looks nice but it is not an easy language to learn. I can change the page to Sinhala in Sinhala itself and drop Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka World University and School is a really long name so we better drop country names from the university name. No I worked only on the landing page for now as I have to manually edit sentences.
I have taken but never completed. Have completed only in FutureLearn and Canvas. I do have experience in self hosting online courses with verified certificates using Moodle for over 2 years.
If you want to host your own edX courses on the edX platform or combine courses to provide a specialised programme you need to contact edX. If you want to launch private courses from scratch using OCW you need to self host Open edX LMS or use edX Studio with edX Edge.
Sure we will go ahead with English. Yeah ! Higher education is mainly done in English based on British qualifications using classrooms. State universities are mainly for high school toppers. It depends on how the students react to e-learning? I gave out nearly 5000 edX coupons with the majority dropping out halfway and we are providing a 4 year programme with no exit points. What is the quota?
Regards,
Rifai
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Rifai,
I just added this new World University and School in the Sinhala language -
at the top here (W June 24, 2020) - https://scott-macleod.
So edX courses, and MIT OpenCourseWare courses (with WUaS instructors teaching them live in group video) are not Harvard, Stanford & MIT on the ground. They're a completely new educational system informed by information technologies. And WUaS seeks to create this WUaS 'educational culture online' eventually in Sri Lanka World Univ & Sch in Sinhala and offering Bachelor, Ph.D., Law, and MD, as well as IB high school degrees. WUaS seeks to facilitate live online professors and teachers teaching too!
Seeking to create the 'life of the mind,' of inquiry and problem-solving, and a book-ish online World Univ & Sch culture too. Looking forward to working out the IT for this. How to let book-ish circles - students and their parents - in Sri Lanka know about these free-to-students' online best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare Bachelor's degrees? Your Sinhala translations will help so, so much! Thank you!
More specifics about your recent emails soon.
Cheers, Scott
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| Sun, Jun 28, 10:21 AM (1 day ago) | | ||
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More specifically per your recent emails:
Let's eventually call Sri Lanka World University and School in the Sinhala language Sri Lanka World University and School in Sinhala; for the time being, if you'd like, dropping the Sri Lanka is fine () ... but keeping this long name might be much more welcoming to Sri Lankan students, even if at first in English, than the shorter name. What do you think?
How did you add a new page in WUaS's drive - eg https://sites.google.com/
I teach - http://
May teach another actual-virtual Harbin ethnographic course here in Google Street View ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ with this as a kind of text book ~ http://www.scottmacleod.com/
Could we aim for 100 Sri Lankan students to finish a 4 year WUaS free-to-students' Bachelor's degree - as quota (every year at first)? I don't think there's much data at all about how many students finish 4 year online degrees, while there is so data about how many people finish a single course; a few years ago it was around 7%,
How to use the wiki schools to welcome eventual matriculating students? Introduce WUAS wikis in Sri Lankan high schools - where high school students could become wiki-teachers to Youtube video even? (ie high school students could teach something about Sri Lanka they know and love, perhaps to a Youtube video, and then post this to an existing Subject - https://wiki.
How best to reach out to the children of Sri Lankan professors for these free, best STEM CC-4 OpenCourseWare-centric degrees at WUaS?
Regards, Scott
--
- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President
- World University and School
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| 8:52 AM (2 hours ago) | | ||
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Hi !
I made some changes to the site. They have not got published. Should see what happened. Instead of categorising by country better to categorise by language as more than one language is spoken in each country. The page has to be changed to
Also I created a page in Tamil
You can try these links for comparison. Questions are welcome.
The best place for information on Sri Lankan degrees is the UGC of Sri Lanka. Students are mainly prepared for 3 year commonwealth degrees so they have actually covered part of an Associate Degree. They have to adapt to American plus online culture and you should have a discussion with the American Center in Sri Lanka who promote it. This is run by the Embassy of USA. Also we can get the help of colleges if we allow them to charge a facility fee from students who like to follow the degree at a college with mentor support. WUaS can charge a royalty from these colleges. Both fees can be decided by WUaS.
In order to build an online university with the things you mentioned it is mandatory to move to a self hosted LMS like Open edX or platform like edX which is easy to manage. These support plugins and are built for online teaching. Wiki might not be the right choice from a students point of view. If you can consider moving into an LMS that might be the turning point for WUaS. Volunteers can be provided teacher accounts and major languages are supported in an LMS.
It is welcoming but difficult to remember plus it prevents building a global brand. Anyway we are localizing that is welcoming too. We might have more success offering majors like Business Management, IT, Law, Creative Arts, Engineering, Medicine etc. Go to sites.google.com sign in. Click on the site at the bottom. On the right side you get add page.
100 is a good target. We can promote that only 1000 slots are offered free as scholarships. Atleast 10% might complete. We need to reach leading schools then.
Regards,
Rifai
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Info WorldUniversity
9:03 AM (2 hours ago)
to Nidahas, nidahasvidyalaya, Sri, livestream, Peter, mazumdarp, Scott, Marisol
Hi Sri, and All,
First thing, and as you may know, WUaS plans to be in all ~200 countries (in their official / main languages, and for licensing /accreditation and even reimbursement + ), each a major online university, and in 7,117 known living languages, each wiki schools for open teaching and learning - so both Sri Lanka WUaS in Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/srilanka - and Sinhala language in Google Sites - https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/sinhala - are good, and central and important even.
These Google Sites' pages you've made will also correspond with these wiki pages (and the countries and languages in them) -
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages
More later, thanks - and what you've done is so great!
Regards,
Scott
- https://sites.google.com/view/worlduniversityandschool/ -
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University -
- worlduniversityandschool.org -
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| 9:50 AM (1 hour ago) | | ||
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Rifai, Partha, and All,
Let's explore adding the degree web sites you shared to Sri Lanka WUaS wiki ... https://wiki.
Great too -
As you may recall, (in 2015) WUaS donated itself to Wikidata (as 'back end' structured knowledge database - in Wikipedia's ~300 languages) for co-development - and languages are KEY or central to WUaS - and received the 'front end' WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in 2017 ... but they aren't yet interoperable. This is an example of 'front end' WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki https://wiki.
As you know, the WUaS Course Catalog, and newly with the ORAP edX list you shared, make available edX course links (and best STEM OpenCourseWare CC-4 MIT OCW links - in its 4 languages - and MITx links, and other course links). WUaS seeks to automate the process of adding these links to both our WUaS academic wiki subject pages, as well as to our Course Catalog itself - and in all ~200 countries' official and main languages, for accrediting online degrees (Bach. Ph.D., Law, MD and IB).
WUaS Course Catalog -
https://docs.google.com/
https://docs.google.com/
edX ORAP courses-
https://docs.google.com/
https://docs.google.com/
So at this point, WUaS in G Suite for Education is seeking to develop in this as the LMS - Learning Management System - and it's pretty sophisticated, and one of the best, with relatively good ease of use. See for example - Assignments - https://edu.google.com/
Again, WUaS seeks to become like Stanford or Harvard, yet online, and with edX and MIT OCW courses - and so Sri Lankan students would be studying these online. So the degrees that Sri Lankans get from WUAS first in 4 years, would be like the degrees Sri Lankans get from Harvard and Stanford on-the-ground (with similar licensing and accreditation process), but newly online. Partha works in the American Embassy. Partha, would you like to share your thoughts about some of this?
And WUaS seeks to connect matriculating students -
https://wiki.
with their countries -
Thanks too for this information about how to begin a new page in Google Sites:
"Go to sites.google.com sign in. Click on the site at the bottom. On the right side you get add page." - Peter, Partha, Marisol?
Would you like to explore taking on developing Google Sites' WUaS pages for all ~200 countries - and in their official languages with time? Shall we see if we can get native speakers to connect with you about this to develop translation. Could I interview you about how this might work. Monday's WUaS Livestream emails for example, have many non-English native speakers among us. May I send an invitation to you in 10 minutes to join the WUaS Livestram, Rifai?
Regards,
Scott
Have blogged about our recent emails here -
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